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enUS-China climate deal: Maker or breaker?http://cseindia.org/content/us-china-climate-deal-maker-or-breaker
<p><img width="200" height="166" align="left" class="standalone-image" title="Illustration: Tarique Aziz" alt="US-China climate deal" src="/userfiles/p24illu.jpg" /></p>
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<p>The Indian government must not use &ldquo;equity&rdquo; to block climate change negotiations. It must be proactive on equity and put forward a position on how to operationalise the sharing of the carbon budget&mdash;accounting for countries&rsquo; contribution to past emissions and allocating future space&mdash;in climate talks.</p>
<p>I wrote this last year when the UPA government was in power. I am repeating this as the NDA government prepares for the next conference of parties (CoP) to be held in December in Peru.</p>
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<p>One item on the agenda of the much-discussed Narendra Modi-Barack Obama meeting that has Indian commentators flummoxed is hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). The joint statement issued after the meeting of the two heads of states says rather ambiguously that the two sides agreed to cooperate on &ldquo;next steps to tackle the challenge posed by HFCs to global warming.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>Climate change has a surprising new follower: the US president. The US government has been the biggest bugbear in climate change negotiations. Since discussions began on this issue in the early 1990s, the US has stymied all efforts for an effective and fair deal. It has blocked action by arguing that countries like China and India must first do more. Worse, successive governments have even denied that the threat from a changing climate is real, let alone urgent.</p>
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<p>Australia is a coal country. It is big business&mdash;miners are important in politics and black gold exports dominate the country&rsquo;s finances. But dirty and polluting coal evokes emotions in environmentally concerned people. Coal-based power provides 40 per cent of the world&rsquo;s electricity and emits one-third of global carbon dioxide, which is pushing the world to climate change.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>Does the Indian government&rsquo;s loud voice in international negotiations produce results? At the recent WTO meet in Bali, the Indian government went all guns blazing to defend the rights of its farmers and to ensure food security for millions of poor. It opposed the Agreement on Agriculture that limits government food procurement at 10 per cent of the value of total production, based on the prices of late 1980s. It said this clause would impinge on its right to offer farmers a supportive price and to procure food stocks for its food safety programme.</p>
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<p>&nbsp; If you know that a sector has arrived when it makes for trade wars between countries, then solar energy clearly has. Last year, the US imposed anti-dumping duties on Chinese imports of solar panels; now the EU has proposed the same. The Chinese have in turn threatened that they will take action against European exports of poly-silicon, the material used for manufacturing solar panels. In February this year, the US filed a case against India at the World Trade Organization (WTO) for &ldquo;favouring sourcing of panels from domestic manufacturers&rdquo;.</p>
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<p>&nbsp;If you know that a sector has arrived when it makes for trade wars between countries, then solar energy clearly has. Last year, the US imposed anti-dumping duties on Chinese imports of solar panels; now the EU has proposed the same. The Chinese have in turn threatened that they will take action against European exports of poly-silicon, the material used for manufacturing solar panels. In February this year, the US filed a case against India at the World Trade Organization (WTO) for &ldquo;favouring sourcing of panels from domestic manufacturers&rdquo;.</p>
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<p>India&rsquo;s solar power policy is now entering round two. And there is much that needs to be reviewed and reworked as the business of solar energy has seen massive turbulence in India as well as globally. In the first phase (2010 to 2013) of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) the target was to set up 1,000-2,000 MW of grid-based solar power in the country. By 2013, the country has indeed commissioned some 1,000 MW of solar power, but 700 MW of this target comes from the non-JNNSM state of Gujarat.</p>
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<p>The last image of 2012 is protesters storming the bastion of Delhi, outraged at the brutal rape of a young girl and the culture of violence against women. This outburst by the educated middle class, many of them young women, was spontaneous as much as it was leaderless. But as we move to the next year, we need to think about the response of the government to this protest and others. We need to understand if the Indian state has any clue about what is going on under its nose&mdash;and feet.</p>
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